Yk Projects: November 2008

Yk Projects has practically been in existence since 2004, it regroups series of the next generation Nigerians, teamed up to form a collective of Artistes from the performing to the visuals and letters art.

Young Kings Projects (Yk Projects) operates between Nigeria and France as a not-for-profit company, initially registered as a performing company in Nigeria, but due to the lack of appreciation of the arts and the disdain which tend to subject Artistes to a hostile environment, informed the coming together of a collective of Youths with legs in different sectors of arts, amongst which are Performing artistes, Visual artistes and Writers, all with similar intentions of creating an alternative landscape for the local audience to be aware of the art by projecting contemporary arts (Dance, New Circus and Street arts) through media and publications, thereby creating a conducive environment for their existence at home.

The main Activities of the Organization includes;

Creations and performances (Mainly Dance, New circus art and Street arts with the fusion of other media)
Coverage and documentation of art related profiles, for media and archival purposes.
Event Organizations (such as the Bi-annual Ewa Bami'jo, workshops and conferences)

while we base our main source of income on Fund raising, Performances and income from existing projects.

Since 2004 that Yk Projects has been in existence, we've been able to register ourselves in the subconscious of many and getting involved more in the contemporary dance discourse, both theoretical and practically in Africa, Europe and America at large, and we've participated in international workshops, festivals and conferences in Lagos, Bamako, Cotonou, Paris, Santo Domingo, Tunis and USA.
Since 2005 we organised Ewa Bami’jo locally in Lagos. An event that will later become a bi-annual and international event from 2009.
In 2007 the organisation executes a research project and happenings in non-conventional spaces titled Do we need Cola-Cola to dance? As part of the Afro-futurist struggles and inspiring Africa to dream using alternative measures. It toured round Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa, Mozambique, Kenya and Cameroon.
In 2008, Yk Projects carries on with the realisation of a documentary film (Do we need cola-cola to dance?) and a documentary photographic book (Crossing Boarders) that follows our 2007 research project. A work-in-progress seires of Do we need cola cola to dance? Has been screened in Lagos, Kinshasa and Masachausette.
Presently Yk Projects has moved on with the execution of a workshop series concept titled “Collection of those things that burn in us”